Friday Night Lights Analysis Friday Night Lights offers a good idea of ​​how football envelops everyone's lives in the Texas city of Odessa. Although it uses football as its main theme, I don't think it is a book primarily about sports. The story is mainly about the people of a town that has nothing to look forward to other than football. The story tells the lives of a few players and their parents. The author describes their background, their characteristics and their reactions to football and life in general in Odessa. The story seems to focus on football, as football is central to everyone's lives. During the fall months, locals just lived and breathed Permian football. The town was full of people like Ken Scates who went to Permian's first practice and "hadn't missed a game except for the time he had heart bypass surgery in Houston (41). school would do anything to make sure the football team had everything it needed In 1988, Permian spent $70,000 to charter jets for away games (146). , such a thing would have been considered unthinkable Almost any other sport could have replaced football in the book as the primary sport in Texas, but if the setting was changed to a small farm town in Iowa, a sport. like wrestling could easily be used in place of football...... middle of paper ...... a family that LV and Boobie seemed close to had made Boobie the player he was Even when. Boobie was injured, LV still believed in him and believed he could play for a good college, it seemed to the players. had more mutual respect for their parents than love. The city of Odessa had many problems ranging from poverty to racism. It would be difficult for most people to survive in a place like that and the only reason we could was because of the football team. The team gave hope to people who would normally just be losers. The book did a good job of illustrating all aspects of the team, the city, and Texas in general. After reading this book, it becomes clear that only in America could a story like this take place..